juan said:
If the DVR doesn't have a "DVR FEE " why is it 3 dollars a month more than a standard box!! Sounds like more slick marketing
I guess that 160GB hard drive that isn't inside the standard box doesn't cost anything does it. I was making a point that Verizon's HD DVR only costs 12.95/month. Lets not forget that many Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks areas including my cable company have both a rental fee and an DVR fee which I'll list below.
Bright House Networks charges the following below.
Plain digital cost is 6.95/month while Verizon charges 3.95/month.
HD box (non DVR) costs 6.95/month with BHN while Verizon charges 9.95/month.
SD DVR box costs 6.95/month (rental) "and" 6.95/month (DVR fee) with BHN while Verizon only charges 12.95/month total. Keep in mind that Verizon only offers an HD DVR and not an SD DVR but the HD DVR can fully support and output in the non HD format like an SD DVR does today.
HD DVR from BHN costs 6.95/month (rental) "and" 9.95/month (DVR Fee) while Verizon charges only 12.95/month total.
Also keep in mind that BHN charges an extra 6 bucks a month for their HD Pak while Verizon doesn't have an extra HD Package.
So just for HD I pay the following below to BHN on just the HDTV front.
I have three HD DVR boxes so I pay the following below.
6.95/month (rental) x 3 = 21.00/month rounded off.
9.95/month (DVR Fee) x 3 = 30.00/month rounded off.
6.00/month for HD Pak
So I pay a total of 57.00/month for this.
With Verizon I pay the following below to get my HD DVR boxes and HD channels.
12.95/month x 3 = 39.00/month.
So lets see what the better deal is now. I pay BHN 57.00/month for three HD DVRs to get their HD channels on.
I pay Verizon 18.00/month less than I do BHN for the same HD DVR boxes and I get more national and local HD channels than I do with BHN. Clearly one is the better deal.